John Trapp on Matthew 2:18

Verse 18. Lamentation, weeping and great mourning] How impatient was Iacob in the losse of Ioseph, David of [illegible: 1 word], &c? Grief for sin (then which [illegible: 1 word] more deep and soaking) is set forth by this unparalleld lamentation. Zech. 12. 10. [illegible: 1 word]. 5. 4. [illegible: 1 word] are they that mourn, as men do at the death of their dearest [non-Latin text not transcribed]. children. But let such say to God, as St [illegible: 1 word] adviseth a friend of his in like case, Tulisti liberos, [illegible: 1 word] ipse [illegible: 1 word]: non contristor Ad Julian. quod recepisti: ago [illegible: 1 word] quod [illegible: 1 word]: Thou hast taken away whom thou hadst given me: I grieve not that thou hast taken them, but praise thee, Lord, that was pleased to give them. Rachel weeping] That is, [illegible: 1 word], in the way whereto Rachel died in child-birth, and was buried, Give me children, or [illegible: 1 word] I die: Give her children, and yet she dies. For her children] Those dear pledges and pieces of our selves;Lambin. in Menech. [illegible: 1 word], [illegible: 1 word]. Act. 1. [illegible: 1 word]. called Chari by the Latins, and [non-Latin text not transcribed] by the Greeks, darlings, in whom is all our delight, Ezek [illegible: 1 word] 24. 25. yet are they certain cares, but uncertain comforts.1. [illegible: 4 words] cum charis [illegible: 1 word]. And would not be comforted] This confutes him in Plautus, that said, Mulier nulla [illegible: 1 word] cordicitus ex animo. These mourned Filius [illegible: 1 word] [non-Latin text not transcribed]. beyound measure, utterly refusing to be comforted by any fair words of the murtherers, excusing the matter (likely) to the miserable mothers, and promising amends from the King by some other means, or by any other way. But immoderate sorrow, for losses past hope of recovery, is more sullen then usefull: our stomackMic. 6. 9. may be bewrayed by it, not our wisedom: and although something Lento [illegible: 2 words]. Ipsa [illegible: 1 word] verenda [illegible: 3 words] [illegible: 1 word] we may yeeld to nature, in these cases, yet nothing to [illegible: 1 word]. Because they were not] A just judgement of God upon them for their unnaturallnesse to the Son of God, whom they shut our into a stable. The dullnesse and [illegible: 1 word] of these [illegible: 1 word] required thus to be raised and rowsed up, as by the sound of aAnt. [illegible: 1 word] 17. Trumpet, or report of a Musket. Happy for them, if they had hearts Sylla [illegible: 1 word] it a ut [non-Latin text not transcribed] [illegible: 1 word] [illegible: 1 word]. In [illegible: 5 words]. to hear the rod, and who had appointed it. But we many times mistake the cause of our misery, groping in the darke as the Sodomites, crying out upon the instrument, seldom reflecting; our mindes being as ill set as our eyes, we turn neither of them inwards.